Burnside Rare Books

The Thief's Journal

Genet, Jean; Jean-Paul Sartre [Foreword]; Bernard Frechtman [Translator]

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1954.

First English-language edition. Signed by Jean Genet on the title page. 291 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with creased and concave spine, edge wear, rear price blackened, foxing to top edge, lacking printed jacket.

The semi-autobiographical existential novel that shocked postwar France upon first publication in 1949. Quite rare signed. Item #140942991

Price: $1,500.00